Vocabulary
Some Kitsai words include the following:
- Bear: Wari:ni
- Corn: Kotay
- Coyote: 'Taxko
- Grass: A'tsi'u
- Man: Wí:ta
- Sweet potato: 'Ihts
- White: Kaxtsnu
- Wind: Ho'tonu
- Woman: Tsakwákt
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Famous quotes containing the word vocabulary:
“[T]here is no breaking out of the intentional vocabulary by explaining its members in other terms.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)
“I have a vocabulary all my own. I “pass the time” when it is wet and disagreeable. When it is fine I do not wish to pass it; I ruminate it and hold on to it. We should hasten over the bad, and settle upon the good.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“A new talker will often call her caregiver “mommy,” which makes parents worry that the child is confused about who is who. She isn’t. This is a case of limited vocabulary rather than mixed-up identities. When a child has only one word for the female person who takes care of her, calling both of them “mommy” is understandable.”
—Amy Laura Dombro (20th century)